Poem-a-Day
Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Genevieve Shubeck. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
1501
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1502
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1503
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1504
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1505
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1506
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1507
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1508
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1509
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1510
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1511
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1512
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1513
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1514
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1515
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1516
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1517
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1518
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1519
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1520
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1521
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1522
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1523
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1524
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1525
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min